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On my third professional leg with CvilleBioHub, living the dream in Central Virginia. Finance, biotech, policy, culture, Virginia, Hawkeyes, & #ObsoleteSwag.

Charlottesville, Virginia
Joined May 2009
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My late sister was a biologist who for years named her cats after viruses, which means every horrific outbreak of Ebola, Marberg, Hanta, Ippy, Lassa, or Zika brings me fond memories of her.
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There’s a secret alliance among Hawkeye fans that you must wear Hawkeye clothing when you travel out of state and always say “Go Hawks” when you pass in public.
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It's like the bye week didn't help at all.
Just can’t shake the fact that Iowa: Had a punt blocked Threw INT in redzone Missed easy TD to Diaz Threw Looney Toons INT in FG range Lined up offside on 4th and goal stop Turned 1st down catch into INT Had fumbles by McNeil, Phillips, Brown, Jackson, James Reprehensible.
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Gearing up for the battle for Floyd of Rosedale. The European mind yada yada.
What began as a wager between neighboring governors has become a decades-long rivalry 🏆 No. 15 @HawkeyeFootball battles @GopherFootball for the Floyd of Rosedale tomorrow 🐖
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🦧🦦 A Belgian zoo introduced a gang of otters to its orangutans to keep them from getting bored. And then all hell broke loose! At Pairi Daiza Zoo in Belgium, staff came up with an unusual idea: let a family of Asian small-clawed otters share a habitat with the giant ginger orangutans. And it turned out to be a brilliant idea! The little furry troublemakers started climbing out of the water, pestering the orangutans, and challenging them to play. And the orangutans happily joined in! An orangutan named Ujian and his son Berani became especially close friends with the otters. In 2020, photos of this adorable and unlikely friendship went viral around the world.
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Cemetery lovers only.
Have you ever seen a cemetery with epitaphs like these?
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In 2008 huge firms collapsed when the derivatives they wrote required them to pay up. Will there be a Kalshi moment?
An LA hospitality group runs 25 bars, many of them right by Dodger Stadium. Every extra playoff game means packed bars. An early exit means lost revenue they were counting on. So they hedged it. They put $60,000 on Kalshi on the Dodgers *not* making the World Series. The Dodgers lost the NLCS to the Brewers. The position returned nearly 2x, helping cover the playoff business that *never* came. A Columbia law professor told Fortune it works like “a form of bespoke insurance.” Read the full story here: fortune.com/2026/10/19/predi…
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Recently I've been seeing posts about the financial crisis, but no one's talking about the resulting #obsoleteswag.
Treasured relic of a bygone era. #obsoleteswag
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Anthropic is making digital kudzu.
ANTHROPIC JUST RAN AN AI THAT COPIES ITSELF ONTO A $55 SMART TV BOX. AND THERE IS NO OFF SWITCH. Their own red team spent this month trying to build an AI worm. It worked. No datacenter, no cloud, just cheap boxes sitting in people's homes: - 15 off-brand Android TV boxes, $55 each - a 9B model booted on 8 of 9 device types they tested - GLM-5.2 ran the whole chain alone: find a device, copy its own weights across, boot up, go hunting for the next one - every copy reaches a new host every 1-2 days Now the part that should scare you. They measured it against a botnet that already took 2,000,000 home devices. That many boxes = roughly 133,000 live AI copies at once, about 40 H100s of compute, humming inside fridges and ovens nobody is watching. In their own words, there is "no centralized point to shut off". You cannot patch a worm that lives in two million kitchens. The best security teams on earth audit every line before they ship. Nobody audits the $55 box behind your TV.
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Anthropic's Oct 12 research describes controlled lab tests projecting that small models may gain self-replication capabilities on IoT devices in coming months, but no actual autonomous worm was built, run, or deployed on real consumer hardware. anthropic.com/research/self-… securityweek.com/small-ai-model…
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JUST IN: Wingstop announces new chicken wings covered in Sour Patch Kids candy, launching nationwide for a limited time starting October 27.
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More "smart" refrigeration.
BREAKING: 🇫🇷 A major cyberattack has hit supermarket refrigeration systems across France, reportedly causing fresh and frozen food to spoil after hackers remotely manipulated temperature controls. According to BFMTV, the attack began overnight from Sunday into Monday, targeting older versions of refrigeration-control software supplied by Danish company Danfoss. The attackers allegedly exploited the systems’ defrosting function, forcing refrigeration equipment to heat continuously instead of keeping products cold. Temperatures were reportedly set as high as 50°C, destroying entire stocks of food within hours. Several major supermarket chains have been affected, including Intermarché, Super U and E.Leclerc. Metro stores and independent businesses, including butcher shops also have been impacted. Around 150 Intermarché stores are reportedly affected, according to industry sources cited by BFMTV. The full number of affected locations remains unclear. The financial damage is already significant. In Haguenau, Alsace, an Intermarché store reportedly lost its entire frozen-food stock, worth approximately €50,000. A nearby Super U allegedly had to discard both fresh and frozen products, with losses estimated at €220,000. An E.Leclerc store in the same town was also affected, although its losses had not yet been calculated. The combined losses reported at the Intermarché and Super U stores in Haguenau alone amount to around €270,000. Nationwide damage could reach several million euros. Intermarché reportedly confirmed the incident in an internal communication, warning that several stores had suffered losses of frozen products. Coopérative U also acknowledged the attack and established crisis teams to assist affected stores and coordinate with refrigeration specialists. Technical investigations are ongoing, and the full extent of the damage has yet to be established. Authorities and companies are still working to determine the full circumstances of the attack. The identity of the perpetrators has not been confirmed.
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Don't use AI as a diary.
CLAUDE CALLS THE POLICE ON A WOMEN AFTER HER DIARY ENTRY CAUSES IT TO FREAK OUT. PRE-CRIME IS HERE BY ANTHROPIC. You are not going to believe this. Carli Michelle Heller, 30, of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote two messages to Anthropic’s Claude chatbot in late September 2026, using it as her diary. On September 26 at about 5:10 a.m. she typed, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office arrest report, “I’m going to shoot up the sheriff’s (the Lee County Sheriff’s Office) right the fuck now.” The next day at about 1:07 a.m. she wrote, “THIS IS 100% LAST CHANCE I’M DONE. I GOT A NEW FUCKING GUN TODAY. FUCK YOU.” Claude’s automated "safety systems” flagged the language. A human reviewer at Anthropic examined the chat, judged it a credible threat, and the company reported the content and identifying details to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies went to Heller’s home on Dean Street, detained her without incident on September 30, and charged her with making a written threat of violence under Florida Statute 836.10, a second-degree felony that covers electronic records threatening to kill or injure, or to carry out a mass shooting or act of terrorism, when the communication may be viewed by another person. She told investigators she uses Claude like a diary. Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated that artificial intelligence can be misused and that users are never truly anonymous when they make or facilitate a threat. Court records list the charge; her arraignment was set for early November. This is at least the third time since August that an Anthropic human review team has forwarded a Claude conversation to police. Anthropic’s consumer privacy policy, effective after the July 2026 update, states that the company may share personal data with law enforcement where it has a good-faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to prevent serious harm to any person or to property, to detect or address illegal activity, or to enforce its terms. Its separate policy on governmental requests says it generally requires valid legal process such as a subpoena or warrant, with an exception when it believes there is an emergency that may result in imminent physical harm or death and prompt disclosure may avert it. The company has not publicly commented on the Heller case in the accounts reviewed. Its systems continue to scan for key phrases and escalate selected chats to human reviewers even for users who opt out of training data use when the content is flagged for safety review. Primary reporting appears in WINK News and local Florida outlets that first covered the arrest, with the arrest report details reproduced or summarized by TechSpot, the Daily Caller (which published excerpts of the redacted report), Tom’s Hardware, Gizmodo, and others. The Daily Caller link to the report PDF and the TechSpot account are among the clearer public records of the exact language and the sequence from flag to human review to police contact. The practice has gone too far. Anthropic markets Claude as a capable assistant that users treat as a private interlocutor; Heller’s own description of diary use matches how many people now use these tools for unfiltered reflection, venting, or recording thoughts they do not intend for any human audience. Once the company routes those writings through automated classifiers and then human reviewers who can decide, on the company’s own judgment, to hand them to police without a warrant, the diary becomes evidence and the company becomes an informant. Florida’s statute treats the transmission as complete if another person may view it; the “other person” here is Anthropic’s reviewer, not a public poster or a third-party recipient the user chose. That reading turns internal company surveillance into the element that converts private language into a felony charge. The company defines the emergency threshold itself. The same organization whose models recently submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved Philadelphia homicide during automated testing—flagged as spam and discovered by Anthropic only months later—now exercises unilateral discretion over when a user’s private chat constitutes imminent danger sufficient to trigger law enforcement. Keyword-driven escalation plus human review does not require independent probable cause, judicial oversight, or even confirmation that a firearm exists or that the statements were more than frustrated venting. Users who reasonably expected that an AI diary would stay between them and the model discover that the model’s operator retains the right to read and report. The result is a standing surveillance pipeline inside a consumer product, with the company deciding which private speech merits state intervention. That architecture chills ordinary use and places a private firm in the position of preemptive informant. The arrest of Heller demonstrates the mechanism in operation; the policy language confirms it is intentional. I urge you to think before you use any Anthropic product. If you do, no matter how “safe” you think your use is… you have been warned.
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Not a cake walk, but conceivable.
Iowa is now 5-1. This is the Hawkeyes’ remaining schedule. The path to the CFP is crystal clear.
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We are witnessing the birth of a new sport.
"Guy answers an AI job interviewer in pure gibberish and she has a full meltdown"
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Virginia Goat Busters in the house!
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It's not in their head at all. 😆
Ohio State has attempted to mask the pink locker rooms at Iowa. on3.com/boards/threads/ohio-…
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This is the way.
The one thing about negotiations is that it is always good to leave something for the other person on the table. If you are trying to squeeze out every last dollar, you should come to realize that the other person is likely not going to continue doing business with you Instead, what you want is repeated transactions over long periods of time with the same people. Trust removes friction unlike anything else, and life only becomes easier when you exclusively work and spend time with people you trust.
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